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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +27734117189 (South Africa, prepaid mobile phone)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • adamsbello@inbox.com

Fraud email example:

From: mahalalobolifoundation@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:01:45 +0200
Subject: Consultation Prize Winner

MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION POWERBALL LOTTO-WHEEL E-GAME 2005,
Date: 6TH-JANUARY-2006
REF NO: MLF/06/6654/LWG

Dear Consultation Prize Winner,

CONSULTATION PRIZE NOTICE
The Mahala Loboli Foundation international e-games organizers and co-sponsors, UTHINGO LOTTERIES SOUTH AFRICA officially brings to your notice, the final draw result of the 20TH December-2005 POWERBALL LOTTO-wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in Johannesburg.
Most recently this foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seeks to encourage the use of the Internet for academic and business pursuits. Its major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literary projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as
well as science, research, and higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon number which was selected among the 45 lucky consultation prize winners.
Your email ID identified with Coupon No. PBL242-6914-20 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies. You have won a
consultation cash prize of US $1.500,000.00 (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) only. The MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION has approved a payout of your consultation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency. Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and
processes for the claims of your consultation prize.

For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU accredited claims officer.

MR. ADAMS BELLO
TEL:+27-73-4117189
E-mail:adamsbello@inbox.com

Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consultation
prize winning, we hope you will partake in our forth coming POWERBALL
LOTTO-wheel Email-games end of year sweepstakes special.

Regards,

Mrs Heindel Krugger

NB: In accordance with the POWERBALL LOTTO -wheel E-games policy and regulations,this notification is dispatched directly to only the 45 lucky consultation prize Winners.This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Rather, contact your claims officer whose credentials are listed above. All staff of MAHALA LOBOLI FOUNDATION and members of their family as well as South Africans of all ages are barred from this lottery.

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